FAIRMONT, W.Va. — European aluminum manufacturer Kibar Americas is preparing to restart operations at the former Novellis facility on Speedway Avenue.
Travis Blosser
Fairmont City manager Travis Blosser said the company has never made promises to hire a certain number of workers or start production within a certain time frame. The company has made a commitment to restart operations and they are working to do that.
“They are on track and are going through that process,” Blosser said on WAJR’s

BALTIMORE, MD — U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito got an up close look Monday at work taking place on an important bridge replacement project impacting the U.S. economy.
Shelley Moore Capito
Capito joined Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Rep. Steve Womack, R-Arkansas, and others at the Port of Baltimore where the Francis Scott Key Bridge is being rebuilt after the March 2024 partial collapse of the former bridge after it was struck by a container ship.
The rebuild has not been without its controversy

ELKINS, W.Va. — A single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the Corridor H Highway in Randolph County Monday afternoon.
Authorities said the pilot reported the plane had lost power. The pilot, who was uninjured, landed the plane at about 3:30 p.m. One of the wings was damaged when it clipped a road sign.
The emergency landing occurred on the four-lane section of the highway. The plane ended up in the medium.
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MT. NEBO, W.Va. — A man is dead and a woman is hospitalized after a side-by-side crash early Monday morning in Nicholas County.
The Nicholas County Sheriff’s Office announced that Steven Parsons, 50, of Mt. Nebo, was seriously injured when his Kawasaki side-by-side went off Old Nicholas Road and hit an embankment at around 12:32 a.m. Parsons was taken to the Summersville Regional Medical Center and died from his injuries.
Dawnett Reba Bowman, 63, was ejected from the vehicle along with Parsons

FLEMINGTON, W.Va. — Volunteer firefighters from multiple departments responded to a blaze Monday morning at the former Bradley Mill Funeral Home in Flemington.
The building, which had been vacant, was on fire when Flemington fire crews responded at shortly after 6:10 a.m.
It took less than a half-hour to put the fire out.
Authorities are investigating a possible cause.
 
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FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a shooting that involved juvenile early Moday morning.
Police said the incident happened on Powell Road in the Fairmont area around 1:50 a.m.
No details about the incident have been released.
No word about the extent of injuries has been released.
The investigation into the incident remains active.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Five educators have been chosen by the state Department of Education as finalists for the 2027 West Virginia Teacher of the Year.
The West Virginia Department of Education announced the five finalists in a news release Monday:
– Morgan Bricker, Weir High School (Hancock County)
– Dr. Stefanie Cirilli, Elm Grove High School (Ohio County)
– Heather Hartman, West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (Hampshire County)
– Nicole Mattingly, Clay-Battelle Middle/High School

MARTINSBURG, W.Va – Defense contractor Helsing has big plans for its development in Berkeley County after announcing it would bring a manufacturing plant to the Eastern Panhandle last week.
The Germany-headquartered company plans to break ground next month in Martinsburg on a facility building its HX-2 AI-enabled strike drone.
“At full rate production, we’ll be able to produce 2,000 strike drones per month. That’s more than any like capability presently being produced in the US today,” Helsing